A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books

Drawing Ambience: Alvin Boyarsky and the Architectural Association Igor Marjanović, Jan Howard Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum/RISD Museum, February 2015 Paperback | 6-1/2 x 9-3/4 inches | 156 pages | English | ISBN: 978-0936316390 | $35.00 PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION : This richly illustrated volume showcases the impressive collection of drawings assembled by Alvin Boyarsky during his pivotal tenure as chairman of the Architectural Association (AA) in London from 1971 until his death in 1990. As chairman, Boyarsky orchestrated an ambitious exhibition and publication program that situated drawing as not only a representational tool but as a form of architecture in its own right. This book brings together an iconic set of drawings by some of the most prominent architects and artists of our time—including Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Daniel Libeskind, Mary Miss, OMA–Rem Koolhaas, Eduardo Paolozzi, Bernard Tschumi, Shin Takamatsu, and others. The combination of critical texts and close-up ...

AA Files 77 Maria Sheherazade Giudici (Editor) AA Publications , December 2020 Paperback | 9-1/2 x 11-1/2 inches | 224 pages | English | ISBN: 978-1999627737 | £25.00 PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION : AA Files is the Architectural Association’s journal of record and offers a platform for exchange connecting the research produced by the AA community to a larger architectural debate globally. Organised in a series of thematic sections that emerged from the AA Files Issue 76 Glossary, each ‘file’ contains two or more contributions that explore a common keyword constructing a dialogue between a heterogeneous set of authors with the aim to reframe architecture as a critical point of entry through which the most urgent social and environmental questions of today can be addressed. In Issue 77, the themes are Body, Care, Economy, Environment, Labour, Project and Resistance. A special feature ‘file’ on Home gathers ten perspectives on domestic living during lockdown from Mexico City to Teheran, ...

The Architectural Association in the Postwar Years Patrick Zamarian Lund Humphries , November 2020 Hardcover | 7-1/2 x 9-3/4 inches | 208 pages | 115 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-1848224063 | £45.00 PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION : In the period following the Second World War, the Architectural Association (AA) became the only British school of architecture of truly global renown. It was one of only two schools in the world which fully embraced and promoted the pedagogical ideals put forward by CIAM (Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne) — the other being Walter Gropius’s Harvard Graduate School of Design — and emerged as an admired example for architectural education in other countries. Many of the most famous British architects and critics of the past 60 years attended the AA, including Ahrends, Burton + Koralek, Alan Colquhoun and John Miller, Jeremy Dixon and Edward Jones, Frank Duffy, Eldred Evans, Kenneth Frampton, Bill Howell, John Killick, Robert Maguire, Cedri...

Arvo Pärt Centre & Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos: A Common Denominator Michael Pärt (Editor) ArchiTangle , February 2021 Hardcover | 11-1/4 x 11-1/4 inches | 212 pages | 110 illustrations | English + Estonian (plus booklet with German + Spanish translations) | ISBN: 978-3966800037 | $68.00 PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION : The book embodies a bridge between the dimensions of music, architecture and landscape: the music of Arvo Pärt with the architecture of Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano in the surrounding pine forest landscape in Laulasmaa, Estonia, to form one infused entity. This book is many books. The first takes the reader on a journey throughout the spaces within the Arvo Pärt Centre. The second is a book of words. It reveals quotations from Arvo Pärt’s musical diaries. The third book embraces us with score elements turning into architecture elements. The fourth book is an architecture sketchbook. It contains a graphical description of the whole project from an architectur...

Atlas of Digital Architecture: Terminology, Concepts, Methods, Tools, Examples, Phenomena Sebastian Michael; edited by Ludger Hovestadt, Urs Hirschberg, Oliver Fritz Birkhäuser , October 2020 Paperback | 8-1/4 x 11-1/4 inches | 760 pages | 750 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-3035619898 | $68.99 BOOK DESCRIPTION : Digital technology and architecture have become inseparable, with new approaches and methodologies not just affecting the workflows and practice of architects, but shaping the very character of architecture.  In this compendious work, two dozen university professors and lecturers share their vast range of expertise with a professional writer who assembles this into an array of engaging, episodic chapters. Structured into six parts, the Atlas offers an orientation to the myriad ways in which computers are used in architecture today, such as: 3D Modelling and CAD; Rendering and Visualisation; Scripting, Typography, Text & Code; Digital Manufacturing and Model Maki...

E=mc2:  The Project in the Age of Relativity Andrea Branzi; edited by Elisa C. Cattaneo Actar Publishers , October 2020 Paperback | 7-1/2 x 10-1/2 inches | 600 pages | English | ISBN: 978-1945150739 | $64.95 PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION : From radical research to contemporary design, this book collects Andrea Branzi’s work about city-design and a new opportunity to interpret and anticipate the next dynamics of society. Territories that are conceptual categories, through spaces that are offered up by reality such that design can act and perform cognitively: in this sense, the city becomes a critical concept capable of overcoming its own image. Each passage presents a precise anthropological articulation: from the concept of commodity civilization of the Sixties to that of immateriality, from the concept of the metropolis to that of the anthropological territory, in which the infinitely small and the immensely large coincide, to the point of generating and passing beyond our commonly ...